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Bronze Battler Australian Bass, MACQUARIA NOVEMACULEATA THE BRONZE BATTLER PATRON: Dr Wayne Erskine PhD PRESIDENT: Ashley Thamm ENVIRONMENTAL PROJECT OFFICERS: Alan Izzard, Garry Blount PUBLICITY OFFICER: Andre Dukino SECRETARY: Gary Perry EDITOR: Peter Hatzidimitriou TREASURER John Stokes EVENTS, POINTS SCORE & BASSCATCH OFFICER: HS Tham GENERAL COMMITTEE: Derek Sonter and Paul Matten Contact: [email protected] A Public Service announcement from Club President Ashley Thamm.. NEWS Special guest speaker John Ducksbury will be attending the General Meeting on October 14 to showcase pictures from his recent trip to the Amazon. Damian and his wife Mai are proud to show off Bass Sydney's newest member (membership fee pending). At only 7 days old she thinks she'll manage a cast or two in between feeds. Delighted with the Timber Wolf Long Tom110, but after catching up with the last edition of Bronze Battler; she'd prefer an Attack Minnow - in pink! What she's doing with the Shakespeare Sigma 2950- 240 multiplier reel is anyone's guess, could be she likes the sound of the ratchet. P.S. Damian thinks this'll qualify him for the '400 Club', she was landed in season, weighed 2.626kg and measure 440mm FL (fontanelle length). Paul Matten and his wife have also welcomed a new edition to the family. Sienna Louise Matten was born on the 4th of August and weighed just over 4Kg. Everyone is going well and bubby is sleeping through the night already. Paul went for a quick fish on the Georges River last weekend and got six fish, the best two were a 350 and a 330. The water was nice and clear but there was plenty of slime/algae growing on the weed Hawkesbury-Nepean Bass Catch Oct 18 & 19 It’s always a fun occasion, so support our club and NSW Fisheries! Please register via our website. This link is Live and ready: http://www.basssydney.com/basscatch/index.php Campsite: • We will NOT be at Cattai this time!! • Our campsite will be in Yellomundee Regional Park. A picnic area has been recently refurbished for day use and has a picnic shelter and toilets. We have been granted special permission to camp there over the Bass Catch weekend. • If you wish to camp &/or have dinner with us, please advise during the registration process. Details & directions will follow. • There are no showers nor any power. • BYO water! • Camping will be free of charge. • Facilities will be more basic than Cattai, but it will be much, much closer to where most of us will be fishing. There is direct access to the river there also. • Camping Friday and/or Sat night • This site will NOT be as secure as the campgrounds at Cattai. Do not leave valuables in & around your tent when you’re not there. Keep it basic and either don’t bring them or lock them in your car. • The Club will treat this site as a “trial” this time. If it’s successful, we may use it for our Bass Catch’s, but if not, we always have the option of going back to our previous campground. • As always, camping is not mandatory. Food: • The Club will provide dinner at the campsite on Friday night and Saturday night • Please advise which night you will be camping &/or having dinner when you register • Cost is not confirmed yet, but would not be much different to last time (<$10 per dinner) • For those camping Sat night, Sunday breakfast is also provided and it’s FREE! Briefing & Catch Cards: • Briefing for Bass Catch virgins will be conducted during our GM at Northmead Bowling Club on Tuesday, 14/10/14 or at the campsite • As always, Catch Cards will be issued at either the GM or at the campsite Please have a good time and I hope to see you there! - HS THAM The Editors message: Coming up empty handed 27/9/14 Nearly October, I’ve waited an entire month for the local creeks to slow again and the muddy water to clear up since the big soaking Sydney received earlier in the month of September. I decided to fish a new spot for my season opener for a change of scenery and breathe of fresh air. I launched the yak at 6am on a beautifully calm and clear morning, the barometer sitting on 1020.2, things were looking good! My obsession with surface fishing was whispering in my ear to tie on a Tiemco Soft Shell cicada, but with the lack of insect activity at this time of year I opted to start with a Sammy 65. On my second rod I had a small lightweight spinnerbait with single colarado blade and stinger ready to head subsurface if the top wasn’t playing. The plan was to fish the low light on the surface heading upstream then fish back with the spinnerbait subsurface. The trouble with fishing new water is the lack of knowledge and surrounds. What I found most annoying was that in the low light I would end up paddling over or too close to a submerged snag that would have been perfect to cast at! By the time I realized I would have already spooked whatever MAY have been residing there. Not to be disheartened I slowly and meticulously paddled up exploring and noting each of the snags and their characteristics. This may not be a session for catching a lot of fish but a good recon mission never the less. I switched over to a soft shell cicada after an hour of the Sammy and had a nice juvenile bass dart straight out from a submerged log in crystal clear water and grab the cicada….he took it down but failed to be pinned by the razor sharp brand new trebles….doh! Anyways, time to head back with the spinnerbait now and try my luck beneath the surface. As the sun had started to rise I decided to target the deeper water in hope that there were submerged structures beneath that I couldn’t see. After another hour and a half of casting that spinnerbait I decided to concede defeat. The wind was picking up and my problematic back was starting to get cranky. As desperate as I was not to start the season with a doughnut that is sometimes the reality of fishing. Still, it was nice to be back in the kayak and enjoying nature again. I hope to possibly head up to St Clair this long weekend to make good on the doughnut I had experienced back in July. Either that or fish a creek in Newcastle that I’ve been eying off since last year and have recently gotten private access to in the upper reaches by a friend of my fiancés father. I hope everyone has had some success this season and look forward to catching up with some of you in the near future. Good luck to all anglers! - Pete Reach 5 Outing 13/9/14 – Report by HS Tham 7 keen fishos turned up to fish North Richmond for the first club outing of the new season. Conditions looked OK, not too cold and the water only looked slightly discoloured. However, it was a tough day with the water still feeling very cold. A few fish were caught, mainly by Garry Blount who managed to pull out about half a dozen bass. Ged Delaney got a couple and Craig Somerville managed to catch one as well. The rest of us, Damian Balfour, Derek Sonter, Ged’s mate Lee and me donutted. It was nice to get together afterwards for lunch and Damian brought a season opener chocolate marble cake. It was nice too! The mystery length prize will be drawn at the October GM. Know Your Lure # 15 Cicada (Scoot Coot) – By Damien Balfour Cicada, no-one’s going to disagree that last season was phenomenal for cicada style lures, soft or hard shell. On any evening ‘yaking & Bassing, cicadas were abundant enough that their sound was drowning out the roar of low flying planes, tree trunks were getting crowed out with cicada husks - the exuvia remaining, clinging to the bark of trees like brooches. So numerous were they that the Australian Bass must have been feasting. On the water Bass Sydney members in their astuteness were flicking cicadas across the surface morning, noon and night. My own cicada success was a plump bass, a PB of 395mm (FL) at lunchtime, midweek after casting upstream of a riffle and being unable to retrieve line fast enough, I watched it being swept under the overhanging branches and disappeared way, way before I’d expect it too. I knew a good size bass was on and became worried as my kayak was getting pulled aside, but then the faster flowing water from the riffle caught my kayak and turned it and so the bass moved out of the riffle, away from the snags and into a deeper pool where the water’s velocity eased off helpfully and I played out my best Bass in front of my mate who’d never fished for bass before, never fished from a kayak and was a mightily impressed witness. The cicada lures pictured are not the one I used on that afternoon, but they’re feature for their own reasons. The top lure is a soft shell cicada, nice black and yellow colour, perfectly fine with both wings intact and an unfortunate pair of ole rusty trebles. I acquired this one on my first bass outing this season, it lifted my spirits when I saw it propped up on a branch, only metres from the shore – a great find and was somewhat compensatory for a blank outing that morning.
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